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| - The popularity of this bakery mystifies me. I've purchased or consumed bakery from here about four times in total. The very first time I had one of their P?czki which is a donut made for the beginning of the Lenten season. It was a while ago, but I do remember it was terrible so I never tried any of their baked goods again.
Fast forward a few years later. I wanted a coconut cake for my birthday so my mother-in-law bought one from Breads & Beyond. I have to say, it was delicious and loaded with coconut. The frosting did have the distinct taste of shortening but the white cake was fresh and moist. A few months later, I ordered a lamb cake for Easter and it was also good but the frosting had that greasy taste of shortening.
My most recent visit was just before Christmas, 2015 and I took my elderly mom there because she wanted to take something for a Christmas Eve party. I also was in the hunt for a nut roll. The owner (I think he was) came out to greet us so that was very nice and the woman behind the counter was friendly. My mom chose the adorable looking log cake and a small platter of cookies. She also bought an eclair and cream puff to enjoy at home. I passed on the nut roll because, frankly, it had a weird shape and did not look appetizing. When I took her home, she immediately cut the cream puff in half to share with me. IT WAS THE WORST cream puff I ever tasted and she agreed. The pastry was stale, the chocolate topping was so hard it cracked and the filling once again tasted of shortening. A cream puff is supposed to be filled with whipped cream. She ate some of the eclair the next day and stated it was just as bad and threw most of it away.
Now on to the Christmas cake and cookies. The cake was really cute but everyone agreed it was dry or stale. Microwaving a slice for a few seconds helped freshen the taste. The cookies were really bad, stale and tasteless. My sister and I wondered if there is a factory somewhere that makes thousands of these awful Christmas cookies and B&B Bakery buys them to resell. They don't even have that homemade look. I was shocked to find a couple of misshapen and undecorated cookies hidden at the bottom of the pile. I think we will end up throwing most of them away because they just aren't worth the calories.
All in all, until Breads & Beyond improves the freshness and quality of their products, I cannot recommend this establishment.
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